Quotes with know-it-all

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  • Heinrich Heine The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Quentin Crisp The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Alan Cohen The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Luc de Clapiers The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
    Luc de Clapiers
    French writer and moralist
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  • Bryce Harper The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Benito Martinez The fun part about doing voiceovers and all that stuff is that you're not yourself; you're some other looking thing and sounding thing and whatever else.
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  • Lionel Trilling The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Edith Hamilton The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ''Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.'' The Greek said, ''All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.''
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Bill Rancic The funny thing is while the grown-ups in the family may indulge, we really try to offer our son Duke clean food, as all his meals are made with organic ingredients as the rest of us eat cookies straight out of the freezer.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Anna Quindlen The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Kofi Annan The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Carly Fiorina The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 119
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Billy Barty The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
    Billy Barty
    American actor and activist (1924 - 2000)
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